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| 376451672 | Triple Alliance | Alliance among Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy at the end of the 19th century; part of European alliance system and balance of power prior to World War I. Established by Otto von Bismarck as protection from France. He also had a pact with Russia that died when William II made him resign, Russia then allied with France. | 0 | |
| 376451673 | Schlieffen Plan | (1905) Attack plan by Germans, proposed by Schliffen, lightning quick attack against France. Proposed to go through Belgium then attack France, Belgium resisted, other countries took up their aid, long fight, used trench warfare. It led Britain to sign friendly agreements with France and Russia. | 1 | |
| 376451674 | Triple Entente | Great Britian, France, and Russia allied together to stop Germany's aspirations. They also worked to keep a hold on Austria-Hungary. | 2 | |
| 376451675 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I. | 3 | |
| 376451676 | Gavrilo Princip | Member of a terrorist organization called The Black Hand. Helped to end the optimistic Progressive era in America. Murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. Wanted to set Bosnia free from Austria-Hungary. | 4 | |
| 376451677 | Central Powers | World War I alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire (later joined by Bulgaria). | 5 | |
| 376451678 | Allies | The alliance of Great Britain, France and Russia in World War I, they were joined by Italy in 1915 and opposed the Central Powers. | 6 | |
| 376451679 | isolationism | A policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations that the Americans adopted in WWI, ended with the sinking of The Lusitania by a German submarine in 1915 | 7 | |
| 376451680 | Zimmermann telegraph | (1917) A German ambassador proposed Mexico ally itself with Germany and would regain lost territory in US; hoped to prevent US forces from being sent to Europe; intercepted by British intelligence and sent to Wilson. Got the US into WWI. | 8 | |
| 376451681 | Treaty of Versailles | Created by the leaders victorious allies Nations: France, Britain, US, and signed by Germany to help stop WWI. The treaty 1)stripped Germany of all Army, Navy, Airforce. 2) Germany had to rapair war damages(33 billion) 3) Germany had to acknowledge guilt for causing WWI 4) Germany could not manefacture any weapons. Also divided Austria-Hungary and created Czechoslovakia. | 9 | |
| 376451682 | Fourteen Points | The war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations. France and Britain ignored it because they were eager to destroy Germany economically. | 10 | |
| 376451683 | League of Nations | International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s. | 11 | |
| 376451684 | Russian Revolution | Prompted by labor unrest, personal liberties, and elected representatives, this political revolution occurred in 1917 when Czar Nicholas II was murdered and Vladimir Lenin sought control to implement his ideas of socialism. | 12 | |
| 376451685 | Czar Nicholas | Russian monarch, led failure Russian war effort (Battle of Tannenberg, Russo-Japanese Revolution etc.), overthrown in 1917 by the Russian Revolutionaries (Lenin and Bolshevik proletariat supporters), forced to abdicate the throne during WWI. | 13 | |
| 376451686 | Alexander Kerensky | Headed the Russian Provisional Government in 1917. Refused to redistribute confiscated landholdings to the peasants. Thought fighting the war was a national duty. | 14 | |
| 376451687 | soviets | a Russian council composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers | 15 | |
| 376451688 | Bolsheviks | Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. Under Lenin's leadership, the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917 during the Russian Revolution. | 16 | |
| 376451689 | Vladimir Lenin | Founder of the Russian Communist Party, this man led the November Revolution in 1917 which established a revolutionary soviet government based on a union of workers, peasants, and soldiers. | 17 | |
| 376451690 | April Theses | Radical document calls (1) for Russia to withdraw from the war, (2) for the soviets to seize power on behalf of workers and poor peasants, and (3) for all private land to be nationalized. | 18 | |
| 376451691 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Treaty in which Russia lost substantial territory to the Germans. This ended Russian participation in the Great War. | 19 | |
| 376451692 | Soviet Union | A Communist nation, consisting of Russia and 14 other states, that existed from 1922 to 1991. It was struck bu a series of revolts from 1918 to 1921. | 20 | |
| 376451693 | Red Army | Military organization constructed under leadership of Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik follower of Lenin to put down internal struggles in the Soviet Union. | 21 | |
| 376451694 | Leon Trotsky | Russian revolutionary intellectual and close adviser to Lenin. A leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), he was later expelled from the Communist Party (1927) and banished (1929) for his opposition to the authoritarianism of Stalin. | 22 | |
| 376451695 | Mustafa Kemal | Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938). Also known as Ataturk. | 23 | |
| 376451696 | Ataturk | "The Father of the Turks," Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate, led military campaigns against the Greeks and founded Turkey as a modern western secular state (1881-1938) | 24 |
